Allen Ginsberg, King of May, Prague 1965 (ASV3)

We know we’ve focused on this a few times before but, in the context of our “Annotated Streaming Video” series (and in celebration of the Springtime), wanted to focus on it again – “Allen Ginsberg, King of May, Prague 1965” – Kral Majales – “And I am the King of May, which is the power of sexual youth,/and I am the King of May, which is industry in eloquence and action in amour,/and I am the King of May, which is long hair of Adam and the Beard of my own body/and I am the King of May which is Kral Majales in the Czechoslovakian tongue..” Czech tv shows archival footage from the day itself (May Day, May the first) – the processions, the crowds, jubilant (at least for that moment), thronging the streets and the city squares – and of Allen himself (clashing his finger cymbals, bedecked in his crown).